what’s up, danger?

It’s unfair, because Qimir has a sinking feeling—more of a cold certainty, really—that this is going to be both the first and last time that he will get to experience her like this, where she so clearly belongs.

And now I am just having thoughts about Qimir, months later, when they're together and in love and secure in their relationship, and him thinking back on this moment where he was so uncertain of the whole thing. AND I AM DYING FOR THIS ANGSTY BOY 😭 Like, rereading, I know that they end up together and happy but the road to get there is so hard and painful at times, and I just want to tell him that it'll be okay 😭

Anyway I just wanted to share with you the fact that this story still live in my mind rent free 😂 thank you for writing it ❤️

Aaaah, thank you! ❤️ I'm always so honored when people tell me they go back and reread my work, it means the world to me. 😭 I'm so happy that this little series has stuck with you! It certainly stuck with me.

Poor little angsty Qimir, who of course assumes that this will all end in tragedy, because that's the only way things ever end for him, and why would this be any different? They both had to go through a lot to get over the hurdles in their own brains keeping them from accepting that what they had was real, and that they could keep it. ❤️‍🩹

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He should leave it at that. He should leave, period. They’re skating on the edge of a line so thin it might as well be nonexistent, but it’s there. There is a way that this moment ends and nothing much changes between them. There is a way for them to go back to everything being the way it was before, the way it should be. The right way. The safe way. They can go back to being work friends, or whatever it is that they are, and this night can just be a vaguely awkward memory. It starts with him stepping back. It starts with him saying goodnight. It starts with him heading towards the door. It starts with… “Hey, listen to me.” He takes her gently by the chin to coax her to look at him. When she does, when he’s certain she’s listening to him, he says, low and quiet and just for her, “You are easy to love.” Then, because she doesn’t pull away, and because she’s looking up at him in a way that makes something physical and real ache in a part of his chest that’s felt cold and empty for a long time, and because he’s never been very good at impulse control, he kisses her on the cheek.

Thank you so much, and thank you for sharing this one of a kind work with all of us 🫶🏽

I’m also not sure if anyone else has asked you so apologies if this is a repeat, but do you plan on writing anymore for Osha and Qimir?

Hi! Absolutely, I will send you a PM with a link to where you can download them.

I absolutely still plan on writing for them, if the inspiration strikes! I have been trying to focus more on my original works lately (that all sort of got pushed to the back of my brain space while Oshamir took over for.... nearly a year...), and I only ever really have the ability to write fic if the idea really, really takes hold in my brain. I have a few WIPs for them that I hope to finish, and of course if another idea comes along and takes over, I will absolutely post it.

I hope the name change has some references for us who love your story.

To be 100% clear: I am not hiding any news, because there is no news! I am pulling this series for a couple of reasons, and one of them is that I plan on incorporating elements of it into something original someday, but what I am not going to do is swap some minor details, change some names, and try to go out and sell that as an original work.

That’s a perfectly valid approach for people to take with fic, especially when it’s such a separate AU from canon, but I personally am not a fan of it. I wrote TFHF for The Acolyte, and the Acolyte fandom. That story belongs to Osha and Qimir, and Osha and Qimir don’t belong to me. I love the versions of them that I made, but they work because they’re versions of them, and the story works because of its relation to the source material.

But there are elements of that story, bits and pieces, that do belong to me, and I would like to keep them, and potentially turn them into something else someday, even if that ends up looking nothing like the fic.

So, tl;dr is: I already wrote and published TFHF, and I did it for free, for the fandom. I am not going to turn around and charge people for what I already put out into the community for free, which is why I want to make sure people have the fic downloaded for their own use if they want it!

I will be removing The First Hit's Free, Shadow in the Sun, and The Second Will Cost You from AO3 in the near future! If you were wanting to read them on the site, now is the time! If you are wanting to save them for later or have them on hand to re-read in the future, I recommend downloading them directly from AO3 by using the 'Download' function in the top right corner of the screen!

SOME HOUSEKEEPING:

First of all: what the hell, dude? Yeah, that's fair.

Does this mean that you're going to try to "file the serial numbers off" and publish this series as an original work? I personally am not a fan of the "lift and shift" approach of fic to pub approach, and that is not my intent for this series. Please do not hold your breath for the potential of seeing this series with only the names or minor details changed on the shelves someday. However, there are a lot of pieces of this series that I really love, and I'm really proud of, and I would like to try to incorporate into something original that can stand on its own someday. Hand in hand with that, I, like many authors, have become increasingly upset with the recent uptick in the content we make for free to share with a community being scraped and uploaded as a data training set for genAI without our consent. It's disturbing, and disheartening, and while taking this series down doesn't remove it from having been included in the past, it will prevent it from being included in any future scrapes, and that, at least, is a little bit of a comfort. Another instance of AI dorks ruining everything for the rest of us.

Are you okay with people sharing downloaded copies of these fics with other people, if they want to? Absolutely! Please feel free to share downloaded copies with one another, or print and bind them for your own personal use, etc.. And if this post makes it to you too late and you can't download a copy for yourself, feel free to message me here and I am happy to send you a copy.

Are you going to be removing any other fics in the future? I don't have any plans to at the moment, but it's possible! I don't think I'll ever nuke everything, but if the onslaught of scraping continues in the future, I might. I highly recommend downloading any and all fics that you enjoy and want to have the opportunity to reread, not just my own.

Student/state health insurance and Q paid for the move.

This post made me think of Mae and Qimir and TSWCY !!